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beweep, v.|bɪˈwiːp|
Forms: 1 bewépan, 2–4 biwepen, -weopen, 4–6 bi-, by-, bewepe, 7 beweepe, 6– beweep. pa. tense 1–4 beweop, 2 biwiep, 4–6 bywepte, 6– bewept. See bewept.
[OE. bewépan = OFris. biwêpa, OS. biwôpian, f. be-, bi-, be- 4 + wôpian, wêpan to weep.]
1. trans. To weep for, weep over, deplore (the dead, losses, sins, etc.).
c1000ælfric Deut. xxxiv. 8 And Israhela bearn hine be⁓weopon þritiᵹ daᵹa. c1175Lamb. Hom. 39 Þu scalt bi wepen þine sunne. 1388Wyclif Matt. ii. 18 Rachel biwepynge hir sones. 1494Fabyan vii. ccxxv. 252 The kynge..bewepte yt vnskylfull dede. 1561Veron Hunt. Purgat. 25 b, The Egiptians bewept him seventye dayes. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxix, I all alone beweepe my out-cast state. 1678Shadwell Timon v, I'll beweep these comforts. 1876Swinburne Erecth. 81 Boast me not blameless nor beweep me wronged.
2. To wet or moisten with, or as with, tears.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 61 Yf lukewarm hem by-wepe, Thai wol be greet. 1530Palsgr. 453/2, I bewepe, I slubber a thynge with wepyng. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 178 Which bones he long bewept with teares. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. v. i. 230 And passing clouds bewept..Those wasted limbs.
†3. intr. To weep. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. vi. 26 For þe same þing songe þou a lytel here..byweyledest and byweptest. 1388Wyclif Rev. xviii. 9 The kingis of the erthe schulen biwepe, and biweile hem silf on hir. |